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Four years of hard work paid off for Miramar High School's Chris Dunlap on Feb. 5, when the senior signed a letter of intent to play football for Georgia Tech University, securing his future and his education with his 3.5 GPA. "I just feel fantastic for Chris and his parents," Miramar football coach Willie Hendricks said. "As a coaching staff, we're just tickled to see him sign with a Division I school, especially as hard as he's worked from his freshman year to his senior year." The 6-foot, 185-pound wide receiver was an honorable mention all-region selection by PrepStar while catching 38 passes for 715 yards and eight touchdowns as a senior.

Claire Dunlap said she loves defying the odds and proving people wrong. A year ago, the American Heritage-Delray softball player was recovering after she collapsed on the field in cardiac arrest. Tuesday, Dunlap will be in the lineup as the Stallions play Florida Christian in a Class 2A regional final. A victory sends the Stallions to the state tournament. "This is pretty big," Dunlap said. "I don't know how to explain it. Being back is really awesome. My team means the world to me, and anything I can do to help out is just great."

Sunbeam Corp. Chairman Al Dunlap says he has no interest in becoming the next chief executive of Waste Management _ at least not with the likes of acting Chief Executive Robert Miller hanging around. The corporate turnaround specialist said Waste Management is "plagued with a board filled with professional directors" not committed to fixing the company. He singled out Miller, a board member who was named to lead the trash-hauling and landfill company until a permanent successor to recently departed Chief Executive Ronald LeMay is found.

The massive bloody carcass of a pregnant great hammerhead carried 35 dead pups in her belly when she washed ashore on Delray Beach. They can serve as a reminder: Man is the greatest predator. The shark, considered endangered by advocates, had a large tear in its mouth from a fisherman's hook. "The biggest problem hammerheads are facing is definitely people," said Mikki McComb, a shark researcher at Florida Atlantic University. Hammerheads are notorious fighters when challenged for sport.

It was the morning after. It was shortly after 9 a.m. Wednesday, the morning after Sunbeam Chairman Al Dunlap announced plans to slash thousands of jobs from the Fort Lauderdale-based company's payroll, sell factories and write off millions to finance the restructuring. Stock analysts, briefed in an hourlong conference call Tuesday afternoon, had been kind. So were the Goldman Sachs analysts whom Dunlap had dinner with Tuesday night. They raised their rating of the company Wednesday morning.

Bay Springs, Miss., Mayor J.E. Smith said his town will survive one and probably two closed Sunbeam plants. "We've come back from worse things than Al Dunlap," Smith said - that is, things like two world wars and the Great Depression. Smith said his town is diversified enough with a chicken processing plant, a sawmill, a sausage factory and three hydraulic cylinder plants to make it through. The town has its own telephone company, which owns other telephone companies in nearby towns such as Soso.

The former chairman of Sunbeam Corp., Al Dunlap, has filed an arbitration claim, seeking to force the company to pay him about $5.5 million in unpaid salary and benefits.Boca Raton-based Sunbeam fired Dunlap, hired as a turnaround specialist, last June after his earnings projections for the first part of last year fell far short. The company was forced to restate its earnings for most of the time he was in charge and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating the company's accounting procedures.

Sunbeam Corp. Chairman Al Dunlap, who boasts that he is the best buy in corporate America, got a three-year contract extension that includes a doubling of his salary and stock and options currently worth almost $70 million. The package, disclosed in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, includes a $2 million annual salary and the free grant of 300,000 Sunbeam shares, worth about $15.3 million at Monday's closing price. Sunbeam shares fell 62.5 cents to $50.875 on the New York Stock Exchange.

Sunbeam Corp. Chairman Al Dunlap didn't make much headway on Monday trying to convince Wall Street analysts that the "new, new Sunbeam" will be a vibrant, fast-growing company. But on Tuesday at the Delray Beach-based company's annual meeting in Deerfield Beach, shareholders were a far friendlier audience. Shareholders applauded Dunlap's response to a suggestion that he consider giving up his stock options in the light of the company's recent stock tumble of 50 percent from a high of $52. Dunlap said the options are currently worthless _ they have no value until the price reaches almost $39 a share.

With the first anniversary of the firing of former Sunbeam Corp. Chairman Al Dunlap coming up next week, the company is still blaming him for the fact that it is losing money. On Monday, Sunbeam announced a loss of $60.7 million for its first quarter of 1999, the company's fifth money-losing quarter in a row. That's up from a loss of $54 million in the same quarter of 1998. Current management of the Boca Raton-based small appliance and camping equipment manufacturer says Dunlap's practices included offering appliances to retailers at fire-sale prices for later delivery.

Defensive end Carlos Dunlap and center Maurkice Pouncey on Monday announced their intentions to enter the NFL Draft, and safety Major Wright, a former St. Thomas Aquinas standout, is expected to follow, according to reports. Wright, projected as a mid-round selection at best, couldn't be reached Monday evening. Cornerback Joe Haden and tight end Aaron Hernandez declared in the past two weeks. Florida's junior class will be impacted more than after the 2006 season, when cornerback Ryan Smith, safety Reggie Nelson, linebacker Brandon Siler and defensive end Jarvis Moss left early.

The NFL draft has pillaged the Florida Gators' junior class worse than any time in recent memory. Defensive end Carlos Dunlap and center Maurkice Pouncey on Monday announced their intentions to enter the 2010 draft, and safety Major Wright is expected to follow, according to reports. Wright, projected as a mid-round selection at best, couldn't be reached Monday evening. Cornerback Joe Haden and tight end Aaron Hernandez declared in the last two weeks. Florida's junior class will be impacted more than after the 2006 season, when cornerback Ryan Smith, safety Reggie Nelson, linebacker Brandon Siler and defensive end Jarvis Moss left early.

Carlos Dunlap watched the implosion of the Gators' defense far from the Georgia Dome, but you could argue he had as big an impact on the game as anybody on the field. Would his presence have made a difference in UF's 32-13 loss to Alabama in the SEC Championship on Saturday? We will never know. It is too easy to put blame on him for this loss. This was a complete and total breakdown of every facet of the defense. There was no pass rush. There was poor tackling. There was bad coverage in the secondary.

The early Tuesday DUI arrest of defensive end Carlos Dunlap has left Florida dealing with a major distraction during the most important week of the season. The Gators are moving on without him. Dunlap will not play in Saturday's Southeastern Conference Championship Game against Alabama, coach Urban Meyer said Tuesday. Dunlap is suspended indefinitely after police found the talented junior intoxicated and asleep at the wheel of a halted 2000 Chrysler, sitting through multiple traffic light cycles at a Gainesville intersection, according to a police report.

She raced out of the dugout with her teammates to embrace the other members of her American Heritage-Delray varsity softball team last Saturday night following a 4-3 victory over Glades Day. The victory sent the Stallions to the second regional final appearance in school history, and no one was happier than sophomore center fielder Claire Dunlap. "It was a great game," said Dunlap, who collapsed after a game against West Boca April 15 due to a heart attack caused by an arrhythmia. "I was so nervous in the dugout.

Claire Dunlap sat the end of a bench on the American Heritage-Delray campus with two of her best friends. She only needed a few words to sum up the past two weeks of her life. "Life's a gift," the 15-year-old said. While she remembers little of the night a heart arrhythmia led to a seizure that caused her heart to stop, she knows the end result is nothing short of a miracle. She understands all of the emotions and seems ready to begin the process of moving on. "Whoa," said Dunlap when she first tried to describe the experience.

Pop quiz: Think of your toaster. Can you name the brand? How about the brand name of your can opener? Or your bathroom scale? Can't do it? Don't worry. Hardly anybody else can, either. That's because most people think of buying a kitchen appliance as a dull-as-dishwater experience. But Al Dunlap, chairman of Sunbeam Corp., wants to make blenders exciting. While Dunlap's plan to cut half the jobs from a 12,000-person payroll to save $225 million a year has made him a pariah in labor circles, that plan might be even more audacious.

Sunbeam Corp. on Monday announced a company reorganization and new senior management. The management team led by Jerry Levin is undoing much of what former Chief Executive Al Dunlap put in place at the beleaguered small appliance company. The Delray Beach-based appliance company's strategic plan: * Keeps open some plants scheduled for closing by Dunlap; * Retains two businesses that were supposed to be sold; * Reorganizes the company into three operating groups _ outdoor leisure, household products and international _ with 17 business units.